How To Stalefish, Rodney Jones, Alli Sports Skateboard Step By Step trick Tips

What this video teaches

Rodney Jones teaches the stalefish as a frontside air with a grab added on, filmed on a park transition. He builds the prerequisite ladder explicitly: frontside kickturns first, then frontside airs, which are just a kickturn plus a tap of the tail and a lift of the arms to get some air. His point is that once frontside airs feel comfortable your trailing hand is already hanging down beside the board, so the grab is a small addition rather than a new motion. The grab itself is the back hand reaching behind the back leg to the board, usually around the back truck, then releasing so the feet guide the board back into the ramp.

Key tips

• 1Learn frontside kickturns first, then frontside airs; the air is a kickturn plus a tap of the tail and lifting the arms
• 2Grab with the back hand, reaching behind and around your back leg, roughly at the back truck
• 3Regular riders grab with the right hand, goofy riders with the left
• 4Let go early and guide the board back in; the feet do the work of steering it into the transition
• 5In frontside airs your back hand already hangs near the board, so treat the stalefish as adding a grab to a trick you already have

Summarized from the video transcript.